(December 27, 2014 at 3:51 pm)tantric Wrote: Thus the part where I explicitly chose not to use the word 'religion' and replaced it with 'dharma'. You have a dharma - it is your coherent worldview. Secular humanism, Christianity, Neopaganism and various other isms are all dharmas.

Where do you get "dharma" as a "worldview"? Dharma is an initiative from the LOST series, also it sometimes mean "eternal law of the universe" or "inherent nature of things".
Dharma, isn't about religion. The word originated in ancient hinduism where the word was essentially used to define their duties according to their social positions. Basically the term meant what chores they were supposed to do in their daily lives.
(December 27, 2014 at 3:51 pm)tantric Wrote: I'm not equating them - they are obviously not the same. I'm grouping them. Science isn't a religion, it's a method for proposing and testing hypotheses. Atheism is a nonbelief. Yet there are people who use atheism and scientific ideas as the basis for their dharma. For them, atheism isn't a non-belief, it's their Position.I think you are a bit confused with your grouping logic. You see, groups are made with things which have something in common. Atheism is a position alright but it is the neutral position, which pretty much translates to a null or empty set because unlike religion, it isn't claiming anything, it is simply verifying the claims presented to it by religion.
Now speaking of worldview, science is based on logic, and yes there are people who base their decisions on logic, I don't see anything wrong with that, do you?
If you meant the worldview of those people who don't understand science and logic yet talk about science as if they know it better than scientists, well, I don't know, I just think they are morons.
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